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...Governor Moody as Governor Smith's running mate. Should the Democrats nominate Governor Smith, the "logical" vice presidential candidate would be a dry Southerner, and Governor Moody has come into national prominence as the result of his having eliminated the Ferguson family from Texas politics. But attempts to interpret the meeting as a great Democratic get-together failed, inasmuch as neither of the principals mentioned politics and as Governor Moody's attitude was restrained almost to indifference. Political advisers in Texas are said to have cautioned Governor Moody against being drawn into anything approaching an endorsement...
...draw men into its pursuit. Professor Alfred North Whitehed has long been established in scholarly fame. His publication of some memoires in the current Atlantic Monthly brings to the most sedate and contemplative portion of the reading public a sense of the unceasing and sensitive powers of observation and interpretation a man must possess to interpret life soundly. A wider, busier, and usually less concerned public will, however, be reached by a rebound of this article. The New Republic has given it a partial reproduction and a complete comment. Few from collegiate ranks revolve such recognition and those...
Commented the Christian Century, sophisticated religious weekly, last week: "It is gratifying to be able to state that, so far as we have observed, there have been no efforts to interpret the devastating floods in the Mississippi valley as punishment inflicted by an outraged deity upon the sinful dwellers in the lowlands. If the calamity had been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities...
With Conductor Frederick A. Stock specially brought from Chicago to conduct Wagnerian excerpts and Frank V. Van der Stucken to interpret Beethoven's pieties; with Marie Sundelius, Richard Crooks, Marion Telva, Florence Austral, Nevada Van der Verr, Horace Stevens, Ben Davies and many another on hand to vocalize; even with music critics from leading other-city newspapers to listen, applaud and report? Cincinnati last week held its 27th May Music Festival...
...Runners. British subjects on the high seas may be punished by the U. S. under the Volstead Act, if they are hovering with rumful purpose anywhere off the coast of the U. S. Thus did Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the Supreme Court interpret last week the 1925 liquor treaty between the U. S. and Great Britain. Said he: "To give immunity to the cargo and guilty persons on board would be to clear those whose guilt should condemn the vessel and to restore to them the liquor and thus release for another opportunity to flout the laws...